*		Today in Black History - August 26             *

1874 - Sixteen African Americans are lynched in the state of 
	Tennessee.

1900 - Hale Woodruff is born in Cairo, Illinois.  He will study art 
	in the United States, Paris and fresco painting with Diego 
	Rivera in Mexico.  He will also start the influential 
	Atlanta University shows for African American artists in 
	the 1940's.

1905 - George Washington joins the ancestors in Centralia, 
	Washington. An African American settler of a vast land 
	claim at the junction of the Shockumchuck and Chehalis 
	rivers in 1851, Washington endured schemes of white 
	settlers to take his land and the Indian Wars of 1853 to 
	found the town of Centerville (later Centralia), 
	Washington,in 1875. 

1943 - William L. Dawson is elected as the Black Democratic Party 
	Vice President candidate. 

1947 - Daniel Robert "Dan" Bankhead becomes the first African 
	American pitcher in major-league baseball.  The Brooklyn 
	Dodger hurler helps his own cause by slamming a home run 
	in his first appearance at the plate. 

1948 - Valerie Simpson (Ashford) is born in the Bronx, New York 
	City. She will become an accomplished singer, composer, 
	and producer. She will marry Nicholas 'Nick' Ashford and 
	perform with him for many years. 

1960 - Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis is born in New Orleans, 
	Louisiana. He will begin his musical career with Art 
	Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, later playing with his 
	brother Wynton's quintet, will record with Miles Davis, 
	Dizzy Gillespie, and Sting, and become musical director 
	for the Tonight Show in 1992. 

1982 - Rickey Henderson ties Lou Brock's 1974 record of 118 
	stolen bases in a season, as the Milwaukee Brewers down 
	the Kansas City Royals, 10-3.

1985 - Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game 
	vs the California Angels.

1998 - Attorney General Janet Reno reopens the investigation of 
	the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther
	King Jr., focusing on two allegations of a conspiracy 
	beyond James Earl Ray.

2000 - Sir Lynden Pindling, the father of Bahamas independence, 
	joins the ancestors after succumbing to prostate cancer. 
	Pindling had led the Black Progressive Liberal Party to 
	victory in 1967. Sir Lynden ruled the Bahamas for 25 
	years. He resigned from the House of Assembly in July 
	1997, ending 41 years of unbroken service as a legislator. 

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